/ 17 February 2023

Bing’s grumpy chatbot

Image source: Raimond Spekking
Image source: Raimond Spekking

Whether it’s ChatGPT, its integration with Mircosoft’s search engine Bing, or Google’s forthcoming artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, it’s all go for new ways to scrape information from the interwebs. What it’s not, however, is smooth as the tech finds its, well, its voice… The idea with Bing’s adventure into AI is to help us find more relevant info in a conversational way – and in the first 2 days, the company says a million users across 169 countries were testing it. The problem is it’s getting stuff wrong and getting argumentative about it… In one exchange where the bot insisted it’s currently 2022, it told the human they had “not been a good user” and called itself “a good Bing”. Microsoft says it’s all part of the launch process, and the machines will learn from the mistakes. Just like us humans, really…

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